Carolyn B. Maloney

The latest on Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's mid-year economic outlook and testimony to Congress (all times local): ___ 12:35 p.m. While Republicans urged Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to consider adopting a rule to govern when the Fed raises interest rates, some Democrats urged her not to raise rates at all, at least not this year. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California, said that the Fed should take a page from Mother Nature and wait until next year. "Spring is when things naturally rise," he told Yellen. He told Yellen not to underestimate the ability of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic "to screw things up." For European politicians, that...

Republican leaders delayed a House vote Tuesday on a bill raising money for breast cancer research over anger that some of the funds would go to a group that has worked with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which supports abortion rights....

The FBI's surprise admission Friday that a bungled background check allowed Dylann Roof to buy the .45-caliber pistol he is accused of using to kill nine people at a Charleston, S.C., church set off calls for tougher firearm screening rules and may give...

The U.S. government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its fishing fleets, and to punish people who force migrant workers to catch seafood that can end up in the United States. The State...

Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal.
But they don't know how many of them are new.
The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head...

In 15 years of dangerous missions — from midnight raids on al-Qaida safe houses in Iraq to battling Somali pirates from the deck of a heaving Navy ship on the high seas — there had never been one so shadowed by dread. As Robert James O'Neill...

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt, heat waves to become more intense, species to become extinct and low-lying island nations like Tuvalu to disappear altogether. To this list of calamities, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has added another: Climate...